January 6, 2015

The LaVie Z laptop is unbelievably light If companies at CES 2015 were to have a mantra, Lenovo’s would have to be “thin and light.” These were words repeated on a consistent basis to Onling Managing Editor Jimmy Thang who taken by surprise when he picked up Lenovo’s ultra light LaVie Z and was then…

Custom configured laptops for impatient customers One of the advantages of rolling your own rig is that once the parts arrive, you can get busy assembling the system and be finished on the same day. But when you order from a bulk OEM or boutique builder, you’re at the mercy of their lead times. You…

Custom configured laptops for impatient customers One of the advantages of rolling your own rig is that once the parts arrive, you can get busy assembling the system and be finished on the same day. But when you order from a bulk OEM or boutique builder, you’re at the mercy of their lead times. You…

We can’t stop staring at this thing Boutique system builder Xotic PC has teamed up with MSI to build a custom gaming PC called the Elysium. However, we can’t talk about this build without also mentioning In Win, which has been coming up with some downright funky case designs lately, such as the open air…

Another big name enters the fray Turtle Beach, known largely for its gaming headsets, showed off several PC gaming peripherals at CES today — the most interesting of which is arguably their line of keyboards. This is the first time that the company has branched into this particular market. We first heard about the Impact…

Go big (capacity) or go home Now that it no longer requires taking out a second mortgage to fund a solid-state drive upgrade, maybe we’ll start seeing an influx of high capacity SSDs. Is that too much to ask? Not of Patriot Memory, which arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show with its new and capacious…

Go big (capacity) or go home Now that it no longer requires taking out a second mortgage to fund a solid state drive upgrade, maybe we’ll start seeing an influx of high capacity SSDs. Is that too much to ask? Not of Patriot Memory, which arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show with its new and…

Toshiba has been making some changes, and shifting its focus, which has resulted in the company cutting back on its consumer PC division and focusing more on the business market. So Maximum PC Online Managing Editor Jimmy Thang was able to visit the company’s office to see what the company has been up to since…

Proof that laptop keyboards don’t need to suck Over the course of the last couple of years, MSI has been taking the gaming laptop category by storm, and we’ve seen a lot of interesting offerings from the company. However, it’s MSI’s new GT80 Titan SLI-009 that has us intrigued. The company brought its latest system…